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I need a new monitor for my retro games room - I was originally using an LCD TV and HDMI upscaler for all of my connected systems (everything is RGB SCART without exception)... but there's too many issues; wrong aspect ratio, bad colours, my Saturn looks like crap and neither my SNES or Amiga will work at all.

I tried an old JVC portable TV I had, but it looks like it doesn't work on 60Hz at all (rolling display from my PC-Engine) - which is an issue as I have both 50Hz and 60Hz RGB signals to cope with.

Any suggestions? I don't really want anything bigger than about 17".

The old Amiga monitors would be a good choice as they do 15KHz RGB at 50-60Hz, but they're ancient these days.

Oh, cheap and available in the UK would be good! :)
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Main retro console setup: Acorn A7000 (with CF hard drive & 10BaseT ethernet), Amiga A1200 (40MHz '030 & CF hard drive), Saturn & BBC Micro Master 128 + 6502 co-processor + SD card hard disk, ZX Spectrum +3 and +DivIDE hard drive interface, SNES + PowerPak CF reader & Megadrive + NeoMyth 3-in-1 & NEC Turbo Duo, Jaguar & NeoGeo AES.
Main retro console setup: Acorn A7000 (with CF hard drive & 10BaseT ethernet), Amiga A1200 (40MHz '030 & CF hard drive), Saturn & BBC Micro Master 128 + 6502 co-processor + SD card hard disk, ZX Spectrum +3 and +DivIDE hard drive interface, SNES + PowerPak CF reader & Megadrive + NeoMyth 3-in-1 & NEC Turbo Duo, Jaguar & NeoGeo AES.
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Starting from top down: extensions/cables, region converters & flash/backup devices, Playstation 2 games, XBox 1 games, PAL Dreamcast, NTSC Dreamcast & Saturn, stategy guides & various programming references. Plus a few spare disk drives. Narrow shelving to the right contains a mostly complete PAL NeoGeo Pocket collection and PC-Engine titles further down. The next shelving to the right has Vectrex (original and homebrew), SNES, Gamegear, Master System, Nintendo DS and at the very bottom a shelf a various power adapters.
Starting from top down: extensions/cables, region converters & flash/backup devices, Playstation 2 games, XBox 1 games, PAL Dreamcast, NTSC Dreamcast & Saturn, stategy guides & various programming references. Plus a few spare disk drives. Narrow shelving to the right contains a mostly complete PAL NeoGeo Pocket collection and PC-Engine titles further down. The next shelving to the right has Vectrex (original and homebrew), SNES, Gamegear, Master System, Nintendo DS and at the very bottom a shelf a various power adapters.
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The room....
The room....
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Love the shelves! Great way for accessing the various consoles.

Not any CRT in particular but definitely get one that has RGB SCART, S-Video and Composite. If you ever plan on using a Lighgun stick with non-HD CRT. CRT TVs are very cheap to find, because of consumers wanting to switch to LCDs. I see a CRT monitor or TV at least once every few weeks put out by garbage with free sign in my area.
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Yeah, it's just finding one, I guess. There's a couple of Philips / Commodore RGB monitors on Ebay right now. I'll keep an eye on them and see how they go.

I do have an old Mitsubishi 20" TV that worked with everything I've thrown at it... I just wonder if it would take up too much space.
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megatron-uk wrote:Yeah, it's just finding one, I guess. There's a couple of Philips / Commodore RGB monitors on Ebay right now. I'll keep an eye on them and see how they go.

I do have an old Mitsubishi 20" TV that worked with everything I've thrown at it... I just wonder if it would take up too much space.
Be surprised what you find at local thrift stopres and swap meets. I think any CRT is gonna use up the top where you have the LCD now. You could make an extension or get a slide out keyboard drawer for the keyboard.
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Rest of the room...
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My workstation area; Silicon Graphics Indigo^2 and Octane^2 workstations and my Linux PC.
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Mainly PC games and boxed systems/accessories.
Mainly PC games and boxed systems/accessories.
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Amiga and Amstrad CPC games, controllers, video cables, NeoGeo AES & MVS stuff.
Amiga and Amstrad CPC games, controllers, video cables, NeoGeo AES & MVS stuff.
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You've got great shelving. I wish I had that kind of shelf space. Where did you order all that?
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samsonlonghair wrote:You've got great shelving. I wish I had that kind of shelf space. Where did you order all that?
I recommend to check out Ikea as those shelf are from there. Hell, the small shelf he got there I also have it :lol: .
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Did this also come from ikea?
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because if so, I'm going to buy one right away.
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Okay, this is what I can find in Ikea from what I see from the picture.

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/13690607
http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/40085709
http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/07305310

As for the table, they isn't a design I can find in Ikea that look like that on the picture but I have a feeling it can be modify from one of the Ikea product with additional add on as I can see few stuff on the table that Ikea have to make it.
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The table/drawers is from an educational supplier, not Ikea - it's actually a paper storage drawer.

The rest of the stuff is various configurations of the Ikea Billy range - the office desk is from the Galant range.
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